Nizam al-Mulk

Nizam al-Mulk

(nĭz`əm äl mûlk), c.1018–92, vizier (1063–92) under two Seljuk (see TurksTurks,term applied in its wider meaning to the Turkic-speaking peoples of Turkey, Russia, Central Asia, Xinjiang in China (Chinese Turkistan), Azerbaijan and the Caucasus, Iran, and Afghanistan......Click the link for more information.) sultans. Of Persian descent, he was early educated in administration, serving the Ghaznavids sultans. By 1059 he was chief administrator of Khorasan; in 1063 the Seljuks made him their vizier. Nizam al-Mulk remained in that position throughout the reigns of Alp ArslanAlp Arslan, 1029–72, Seljuk sultan of Persia (1063–72). In 1065 he led the Seljuks in an invasion of Armenia and Georgia and in 1066 attacked the Byzantine Empire. The success of his campaign was crowned (1071) by his brilliant victory over Romanus IV at Manzikert......Click the link for more information. and MalikshahMalikshah, 1055–92, third sultan of the Seljuks (see Turks). In 1072 he succeeded his father to head an empire that controlled parts of Arabia, Mesopotamia, and areas near the Persian Gulf. His rule was aided by the powerful vizier, Nizam al-Mulk......Click the link for more information.. His power peaked under the latter, when he wrote the extensive treatise entitled Siyasat-nameh, or "Book of Government." A devout SunniSunni[Arab. Sunna,=tradition], from ahl al-sunnah wa-l-jamaa [Arab.,=the people of the custom of the Prophet and community], the largest division of Islam. Sunni Islam is the heir to the early central Islamic state, in its ackowledgement of the legitimacy of the order of.....Click the link for more information. Muslim, Nizam al-Mulk also founded a number of theological schools. He was assassinated in 1092.

Nizam Al-Mulk

Son of a small-scale landowner, Nizam al-Mulk became vizier to Alp Arslan in 1063 and to Malik Shah in 1072. He supported strong central authority and expounded his views in Siyasatnama (On the History and Art of Government). Several editions of the Persian text of this work exist, along with French, Russian, German, and English translations. Nizam al-Mulk was murdered by the Ismailians.

47) Nizam al-Mulk notably has information, although probably indirectly, concerning Sunbadh's interests in Pahlavi learning, too; he writes that Subadh claimed to have read of the end of Arab rule presaged "in the books of the Sasiinids (az kutub-i bani Slisan).

Nizam al-Mulk insisted: "Spies must constantly go out to the limits of the kingdom in the guise of merchants, travellers, sufis, peddlers (of medicines), and mendicants, and bring back reports of everything they hear, so that no matters of any kind remain concealed .

The match-up between Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Obama is not a battle between equals, but rather a historical grudge match between Nizam al-Mulk, the eleventh century Persian Machiavelli, and Neville Chamberlain or Jimmy Carter.

To bolster Mughal rule, and to foster a strong centralized state that could withstand centrifugal challenges, Aurangzeb's historians wrote of converting Hindus and eradicating heresy, much in the same way as Nizam al-Mulk encouraged the Seljuq sultan never to trust Shi'is while he himself had married his daughter to one, or advised him against people of bad religion while implementing numerous policies of non-partisanship in the empire.

ySTANBUL (CyHAN)- In my previous article, I extracted pieces of advice for today's leaders from "Siyasatnama" (The Book of Government), a book by Nizam al-Mulk, who has a very important place in the Turkish statehood tradition.

Carole Hillenbrand ("The Saljuq-Isma ili Power Struggle") points out that, contrary to the popular view of the Saljuqs as dedicated upholders of Sunnism and of the Isma ilis as a constant threat to order and the true faith, the period of most intense conflict, marked by the greatest number of assassinations of political figures by Isma ilis, was a very short one, between 488/1095 and 493/1100, and peaking around 490/1097 - in other words, at that "moment of extreme disarray and weakness on the Saljuq side" which followed the removal and subsequent assassination of Nizam al-Mulk and the death of Malikshah, during which Hasan-i Sabbah was consolidating his power in the western Saljuq domains.

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